holbrooke was booked into jail on suspicion of murder. christie smith for "today in the east bay." >>> a warning for women walking on uc berkeley's cam pulse. there's a sexual predator on the loose. a young woman told police she was walking near grinnell pathway when she noticed someone following her. he exposed himself to her, grabbed her shoulder and she screamed. another student came to her aid. now students say they are on guard all the time. >> we live in an urban environment and have to be aware with the increasing economic hardships there could be more types of, you know, crimes that happen. and we do need to have the kind of training and protections that people need to be safe. >> police describe the suspect as a black man in his early 20s, 5'10", 165 pounds with a skinny to medium build. bulging eyes, droopy eyelids, wearing a red baseball cap with a white emblem, a black puffy jacket and blue jeans. if you have information contact campus police. >>> new charges in the card club case in emeryville. police charged the person in ch

third grader in holbrooke. i received a perfect score of 600 in the language arts section. all the students are smart thanks to the teachers. >> the board didn't address their concern as it was not on the agenda. the board did discuss where to relocate students. one proposal is to split and divide other students between oak grove, el dorado. >>> the largest cities in the bay area are also considering big cuts in the public school districts. last week, san francisco schools voted to hand out 473 pink slips. oakland schools will send 538 slips, to which school employees. in san jose, the east side school union district is expected to give up to 110 pink slips. >>> a proposal will protect jobs through the end of the year. tonight, the city council approved. the plan is said to save the city million dollar this year. >>> authorities in san francisco are trying to find out what happened to the person whose body was found near fort mason. they received a call around 4:35 in the afternoon. authorities don't have any i

holbrooke was booked on suspicion of murder at the santa rita jail in dublin. and livermore police are still asking anyone who witnessed anything to please give them a call. reporting live in castro valley, christie smilt for "today in the bay." >>> we have an update on the string of smash and grab robberies in palo alto we have been telling you about. there were several new ones last night. police say four window smash car burglaries happened within an hour just last night in two restaurant parking lots along el camino real. the thieves took laptops out of rental cars in each case. police have seen an increase in the robberies over the past three months. so far officers have not been able to release the description of any possible suspects. >>> this morning san jose is moving forward with a man to cut down the city's estimated 110 pot clubs to ten. and it will issue permits to the few that will remain in a very unusual way. city leaders have called for an april 12th meeting to decide how to cut back the number of pot clubs in san jose and restrict where they c

holbrook is on his way to see you. >> yeah. >> rose: at the same time. we have a conversation. i think he mentioned it to you he talked to me. and then-- is coming from france and we're all on the phone. >> he was in libya. >> rose: yes. >> indeed. >> rose: so my point is, what kind of advice were you getting, first of all, what was richard there for, just for support. he didn't have a government position at that time. >> no. but he had predicted that war. actually he wrote an article in "the washington post" where he said anwar would erupt. and he, you know, unless the effort was done by the western powerses to really stop it and there was some effort done but it wasn't enough, obviously. but he was there, actually. >> rose: he was there for moral support for you. >> it was very important. because this is exactly the point that i am trying to say, richard holbrook didn't bring any weapons or tanks. he certainly had no power to declare no flags. we were being bombed by 200 places within he was not in the bush administration. we were being bombed. tanks were coming. i asked him

and holbrooke was booked on suspicion of murder at the santa rita jail. livermore police say they do debt get their share of road rage cases but it is rare for it to turn this violent. christie smith for "today in the bay." >>> thank you, christie. a mystery solved this morning, we now know why seagulls have been dieing in the port of san francisco. wildlife experts think it is because of an overdose of mold. the state department of game says they inhaled a naturally forming fungus found on decaying vegetation. for more than a decade more than 20 seagulls a month are found dead in the port of san francisco, but now they know why. >>> 5:07 right now. "chronicle" readers may have seen a surprising for sale sign in the morning papers this week. a property in walking distance to union square with more than 600 rooms. the public sale is for the westin san francisco on third street. the hotel is about to be sold off or creditors are trying to restructure the payment plan. the wall street journal reports the hotel is jointly owned by a golden sachs real estate f

>>pam: 41 year-old quarter holbrook of livermore was arrested in howl for homicide. the victim remains on known programs of to the hospital and that hospital does not have a trauma ward so the victim was transferred by ambulance to castro valley. he died of his step wounds. police in the altercation started on first street near the 580 on ramp. they traveled down and ended up on hold for st. the suspect even.. and police say that this is not gang- related but did not have much more information about what happened. and how did they get here on all old first street. in livermore, jeff bush, kron 4. >>pam: the eighth fatality shot on wednesday night sixth avenue near international boulevard a man was fatally shot on wednesday night near sixth avenue near international boulevard it could happen during a robbery. you can see that this video, from the scene. he died of the local hospital and no suspect has been identified. >> motorcycle is billed and the morning crush on her 101 in some detail. daniel of scandal. this happened when his motorcycle collided with a toyota. da

the board shut down to shut down a middle school and holbrook elementary at the end of the school year. they will vote on whether to lay off up to 180 full time employees including 33 music teachers and 20 librarians. they would eliminate music and library programs throughout the district. >> we have learned that the san francisco defender's camera which they say should policeman misconduct. making drug busts, they are accused of making illegal searches and falsifying police reports. six officers have been reassigned. the f.b.i. alone with the district attorney and the san francisco police department are making separate investigations into the drug raids. vic lee is following the story and we'll have more later tonight. >>> san jose soldier has died in afghanistan. mark wells was killed on saturday in helman province. he was injured when insurgents attacked his unit. >> president obama is warning libya they are still considering a military response. he says the violence being perpetrated by muammar khadafy and his supporters is unacceptable. his comments came during an oval office meet

>>reporter: 41 year-old court holbrooke and was booked on murder charges police have not released the victim's name. this is that he is an engineer in santa clara county, the call came on wednesday. and near first road, holbrooke was found with abrasions on his face and a nearby knife and taken into evidence. police say that the was some type of verbal altercation of the five a zero on ramp. they traveled down first street about 580-on ramp--the victim drove and salt to valley memorial. the hospital does not of the trauma ward. and he was taken by ambulance and then died. this is not gang- related and the first homicide in livermore for this year. jeff bush. >>pam: prices of the gas pump. the national average has surpassed $3.50 it is now $3.53. the state average is increasing closer to the $4. it is now $3.93 a gallon in california. san francisco are paying $3.28, oakland, $3.94, and a san francisco, $3.98 (music) >> jacqueline: light rainfall for the most part it is tapered off. the stormtracker 4 is some snowfall. try to the bay area. this is right to the northern california. tempe

the board shut down to shut down a middle school and holbrook elementary at the end of the school year. they will vote on whether to lay off up to 180 full time employees including 33 music teachers and 20 librarians. they would eliminate music and library programs throughout the district. >> we have learned that the san francisco defender's camera which they say should policeman misconduct. making drug busts, they are accused of making illegal searches and falsifying police reports. six officers have been reassigned. the f.b.i. alone with the district attorney and the san francisco police department are making separate investigations into the drug raids. vic lee is following the story and we'll have more later tonight. >>> san jose soldier has died in afghanistan. mark wells was killed on saturday in helman province. he was injured when insurgents attacked his unit. >> president obama is warning libya they are still considering a military response. he says the violence being perpetrated by muammar khadafy and his supporters is unacceptable. his comments came during an oval office meet

i read the memoir that richard holbrook worked on. clifford is talking about his growing conviction that johnson would have preferred nixon to humphrey because he thought that nixon was closer to him on vietnam and humphrey would turn away from him. so all these things that i use -- >> charlie: we have at the same time all of these conversations now about lyndon johnson agonizing over vietnam not knowing his principal, talking to senator russell, his great friend and mentor, i can't get out of this. >> this is the fascination about this man. you can look at those 1964 tapes or listen to them and read them and realize even as he was escalating, he knew. >> charlie: he knew all of the vulnerabilities. >> this is why you go back to his psycho drama is he had this inbread -- bred fear of seen as weak, so i think he was torn. by 1968, he was so angry that his dream of being the next fdr loved by all the people had been shattered. >> charlie: the great society would have given him that opportunity. >> that's where they thought he was going.

rhetoric during the campaign it's rhetoric that's the signal he brought in guy in summers in the holbrooke and others on the foreign policy was clear he would resign. clinton nights it was the neo liberal constitution and it was the very moment in which we could have undermined the neo liberal consensus both domestically and and internationally he decided to reaffirm it in reconstituted with all due respect dr west americans did know where his campaign contributions were coming from that's true it was clear and transparent and known that goldman sachs and other wall street banks were making very large political donations to obama but ordinary people gave a lot of money to yes so they had already we thought it was some balancing because yes he got big money from goldman sachs to get big money from wall street oligarchs then he got all that financial and spiritual and moral support from everyday people and a trade union movement so you would think there would be some counterbalancing and that's what we have yet to see in the two would have us and of course right now this is an preoccupied re

these are folks that attend holbrook and glenbrook.board has decided to close. they're going into the meeting with one last- ditch effort to try to the school board to change their mind. that's not exactly what's on the agenda. today the school board will discuss where to send this to invest and how to divide a lot of of five different schools. the other issue before the school board has to do with those pink slips. as you know this is the worst case scenario, pink slips have to go by march 50. they're talking about 180 of them going out. that is it the governor's tax attention's don't pass. here's to resell looking at what could get caught. >>terisa: this is bancroft elementary in walnut creek and it like the other 56 school sites and the mount diablo school district, is bracing for the worst as the board considers that a deal with a $22 million shortfall. some of the proposed cuts that could immediately hit children the hardest, including eliminating librarians and music teachers. the report to the school board, the superintendent's

even dick holbrook who had questions about it would talk about pakistan, but it's very hard to explainy we should be in afghanistan to protect our interests in pakistan. the american public doesn't understand that. chris: when somebody says they're not going to do something again, it's a suggestion they did the wrong thing the last time. that's a great roundtable today. howard fineman, katty kay, norah o'donnell and rick stengel. [ woman ] bathing suits. shorts. tank tops. [ female announcer ] grab a box of multigrain cheerios, get a code to a seven-day plan to get going on your summer weight loss. get the box, get the code, get started. that's ever happened to cinnamon. introducing cinnamon burst cheerios. 20% daily value of fiber bursting with the delicious taste of cinnamon. new cinnamon burst cheerios. prepare your taste buds.

the board decided to close holbrooke elementary next year. a decision that parents and students tried to reverse tonight. >> i refuse to stand behind a board that treats my children as petty cash and me as if i am unintelligent and disposable. >> that would be kind of sad for me because i really, don't want to leave hall brooke. >> the board was not swayed. in fact, one board member said more schools would have to be closed down the line. as for the layoff notices, they will go out in the next week. it does not mean those particular people will be laid of on. however, those people who would be let go would find out their names by mid-may, and that would be based on senority. abc7 news. >> thank you, john. >>> a statewide amber alert was canceled after an infant and his mother were found safe. eight-month-old sebastian was taken from his bedroom early this, month. his mother, 18-year-old monserat was abducted when she ran after them. they found them in the town of polar and he was taken into custody. >>> the bay area city that adopted the firs

even dick holbrook who had questions about it would talk about pakistan, but it's very hard to explaine should be in afghanistan to protect our interests in pakistan. the american public doesn't understand that. chris: when somebody says they're not going to do something again, it's a suggestion they did the wrong thing the last time. that's a great roundtable today. howard fineman, katty kay, norah o'donnell and rick stengel. hey marcel, watch this! hey marcel, watch this! ♪ hey marcel, watch this! yeah, marcel! -marcel! -hey marcel! are you listening to me? marcel! [ male announcer ] only at&t u-verse lets you follow your favorite channels on one screen. just $29 a month for the first 6 months. dvr included. in the network there are no hard choices.

i'd like to just pay tribute to richard holbrooke because dayton has his name 'em blaze softened on itjust to go back briefly, if we could, the negotiations that president clinton brought everybody to having led the bombing of the targets and having brought it to a point where it could actually have a negotiated peace, it wasn't inevitable, though, when the three leaders went to dayton and holed themselves up for that many days. it wasn't bound to happen, was it? this. >> thanks. i think that's right. and it was for anybody who had the, i guess, privilege of actually being there and holed up in dayton for those weeks, quite an extraordinary moment because on the one hand you had going on on the outside this horrible, terrible human tragedy, and in the room people who were responsible for them. and trying to find a way to, on the one hand, not lose sight of the enormity of the crimes that were being committed on the outside, and yet the need to deal with these individuals and try to find a way to reach an agreement. and i think there are many kudos that can given to richard, but perhaps

less say holbrooke got into a traffic related dispute with a man in a parking lot on old first street. the unidentified victim was stabbed. he drove himself to the hospital where he later died. >>> your time now is 7:31. an overnight report shows a number of u.s. homes getting some kind of foreclosure number. according to real tract more than 355 properties received at least one notice relating to late pay m it's a drop of 20% from january of last year. the new scrutiny on how banks are handling home repossession and the winter weather may have caused the drop. >>> jerry brun wants to impose his own deadline for today to allow a tax extension proposal. the governor wants more time to negotiate with the five republican senators whose votes he needs to get the tax extension on the ballot. >> i think it would be premature to make any predictions. we want to be sure we continue to be engaged and bring forward an option to resolve the impasse. >> the governor wants to let voters decide whether to bridge the $26 billion deficit by extending taxes that are currently due to expire july 1st. >

something dick holbrooke used to say all the time is that dayton was far from perfect peace. the tracing of november 1995, was between an imperfect peace and we did everything we could to convince the parties to choose peace. we knew at the time that it was just the beginning, and i want to say a few words about what we did. but i would like to begin by placing the last question ron brownstein asked is relevant to what this panel was going to discuss. the last question that has to deal with this was the model used to bring about the peace agreement, the work the united states did, is it a good model for the challenges we face today since relatively speaking there are -- it is a more multipolar world. and so, again, to go back to what i said in the beginning a little bit, i was quite well aware that from the moment the berlin wall fell and the soviet union began to break up and russia was then quite weak economically, as i said my very first international effort was to organize the 24 billion-dollar package for russia. china was rising but nowhere near the level of economic or

took a deadly turn. 41-year-old court holbrooke under arrest charged with fatally stabbing another man. police say the two men got into a fight in the parking lot wednesday afternoon near 1st and livermore avenue. the victim whose name has not been reap leased managed to drive himself to the hospital, but he later died from his injuries. investigators trying to figure out what sparked that fight. >> teachers trying to hold on to their jobs. parents, teachers in the south bay fighting to keep school cuts from affecting their children's education. right now, a live look at san jose independence high school where a meeting is just getting under way. understand we don't have the live picture right now. eastside union district will need to cut $10 million for the upcoming school year unless the tax extensions are approved and passed. the teacher association says at least 30 jobs are on the line, including advisers, child care instructors and staff. dozens of other positions are also being eliminated including security monitors who are tasked with keeping school grounds safe. >> just ahead a

blocking or ran from having pipelines, trying to discourage it transit trade, and the late richard holbrooke was so proud of the fact that it that the transit agreement that goes from afghanistan to pakistan to india. there should be routes that go from iran to pakistan to india. it is in everyone's interest. i would refer people to john hopkins, someone who has written about the old silk road. everyone could benefit, turkey could, all of the countries along the old silk road. >> this is one area where support is not unanimous. [laughter] i have a great respect for our and the work she has done here. i think this would be absolutely the wrong time to send that signal. iran is doing everything it can now to try to find ways around the increasingly effective sanctions. this is why there is a tension between the need to engage and find areas of cooperation, and still keep up of very strong front. if we were to send a signal now that we want to encourage pipelines to iran, it would send exactly the wrong signal. [inaudible] >> i am talking about no longer blocking them from doing this. obviously

blocking iran from having pipelines trying to discourage transit trade, you know, the late richard holbrook was so proud of the fact that he had gotten a agreement from pakistan to india. well, there should be routes that go there. it's in everybody's interest. i would refer people to fred star at johns hopkins sites. he's written extensively about the silk road. everybody can belt. turkey can benefit. all of the countries along the old silk road. >> this is one area where trance force is not unanimous. i have a great expect for barbara and the work she's done here. i think this this would be absolutely the wrong time to send that signal. iran is doing everything it can now to try to find ways around the increasingly effective sanctions that's starting to bite. this is whereas i sit in my opening remarks there's a tension between the need to engage with iran, find areas of cooperation like afghanistan and still keep up a very strong front. i think if we were to send a signal now that we want to encourage pipeline to iran, it would be a strong signal. >>[inaudible] >> no. i'm not talking abo

colt holbrooke got into an argument with another driver.that holbrooke took out a knife and stabbed that other person. the injured driver then managed to drive himself to a livermore hospital where staff called police. now the victim was taken to eden medical center in castro valley because livermore hospital is not a designated trauma center. but the man eventually died later on. the time now is 7:27. christina is here with a look at your forecast coming up. >>> good morning to you. i'm right here, right now. so is the rain. it has not arrived just yet to the bay area, but we are seeing the clouds from the leading edge of this system push into the bay. but for the most part we are not going the see the bulk of the moisture arrive until 9:00 a.m. in the north bay. we are looking to a mostly wet bay area by noon. we are not expecting a lot of moisture. less than .25. rain showers are pushing into the north bay, novato, fairfield is getting action between 9:00 and noon. then by the end of the day the whole thing clears out. the extended forec

there was a very good agreement that was sponsored by richard holbrooke. it took years to get that. it made a big difference in the terms of interaction. iran is a big country. i am stating the obvious. as a long border with afghanistan. it is a strategic concern about what happened in afghanistan. they have a community within they are feeling in touch. they had a big problem. the taliban did affect them very badly when they were in charge in afghanistan. they killed nine or 10 of their own diplomats. ignoring iran would be a big mistake. engaging them effectively is the only way. pakistan is not more important than just an engagement. there is a lot to work on there. i do not see this as a show stopper at all. they are all worried about afghanistan that returns to kill. none of them wants afghanistan to go back into the hands of the taliban. the pakistanis have been suffering enormously. long answer to a very good in short question. i'm sorry. >> thank you. i'm a journalist. i want to follow on what you said at the beginning about the strategy. you look at the violence in the south

there was a very good agreement with richard holbrooke between pakistan and afghanistan. it took years to get that. it made a big difference in terms of the interaction that is not just words. iran is a big country with a long border with afghanistan. it also has strategic concerns about what happens in afghanistan. they have a shiia community. they have a big problem about drugs. they do not like the taliban because the taliban affected them badly when they were in charge in afghanistan and even killed nine or 10 of their own diplomats. ignoring iran would be a big mistake. in gauging it is the only way. it is not only iran. -- in beijing it constructively is the only way. it is not only iran. -- engaging iran constructively is the only way. it is not only iran. there are other countries. they are all worried about an afghanistan to go back into the hands of the taliban. pakistan these are suffering enormously. they're suffering more than afghanistan from the taliban. it is a long answer to a very good and short question. i am sorry. >> i wanted to follow up on what you

number one, first and foremost, ammonium nitrate -- you and the department and the late richard holbrooke and others have worked long and hard on this issue. for those who have not paid close attention to it, it is really the main ingredient in improvised explosive devices. it is outlawed in afghanistan. unfortunately, not in pakistan. almost like they're rushing current, ammonium nitrate coming from pakistan as well as other places into afghanistan. i want to ask you about two areas. number one, can you tell us a little bit about and provide a report in terms of our own work, a press report. secondly, the legislative efforts within the government of pakistan to not just impose statutory remedies, but also to better regulate it. >> senator, thank you for leadership on this important issue. this is a direct threat to our troops and also to the people of afghanistan and pakistan. in november 2010, the united states launched what we call operation global shield. it is a multinational law enforcement effort involving 60 countries and international organizations aimed at stemming the flow of i

let's take this phone call from holbrook, new york. good morning. caller: i have a question. we have spent millions of dollars on this war in iraq. it is like we are wasting our time. if we straighten this thing out in libya, and they are going to start something else. this is costing billions and billions of dollars. i do not mind helping these people out, but what has this country done for us? $5 a gallon. here we are fighting every day and they are robbing us on the gas prices. we are wasting our money over there and we do not get anything in return for it. i would like to know what you think. host: scott lanman of bloomberg news. guest: a lot of people in this country are concerned about the rise in gas prices. we are fighting these wars overseas. what we getting out of it? one point to make is the price of gas in the united states is still significantly lower than many other countries especially europe for example, where taxes on petroleum are much higher. it causes or results in more -- there are generally more fuel efficient vehicles and different patterns of consumpti

bridges, the minerals, access to ports -- there was a very good agreement, very affected by richard holbrooke, with afghanistan and pakistan but it took years to do that. it made a big difference in terms of interaction which is not just words. iran is a big country, stating the obvious, with a long border with afghanistan, and also strategic concerns about what happens in afghanistan. they have the shi'a community with whom they are feeling in touch, they have a big problem about drugs, and they do not like the taliban. the taliban themselves affected them very badly when they were in charge in afghanistan, and even killed about nine or tint of their diplomats. ignoring our ron would be a big mistake. -- iran would be a big mistake. it is not only a iran, pakistan is not -- maybe even more important. lots of work on that but i do not see this as a show stopper at all, because they are all worried about the afghanistan there. trying to build. and none of them wants afghanistan to go back into the hands of the taliban. the pakistan's are suffering enormously. a long answer to a very good and s

it was very good agreement which was response iive and very effectively richard holbrooke in afghanistan and pakistan. it took years, but made a big difference of interaction. which is not just words. iran -- iran is a big country. i'm stating the obvious with the long border with afghanistan and also a strategic concerns about what happens in afghanistan. and they have a share community with whom they are feeling in touch. they have a big problem about drugs. and they don't like the taliban. because the talibans themselves did affect them a very badly when they were in charge in afghanistan and even killed, i think about nine to ten of the diplomats. so ignoring iran could be a big mistake. engaging it is the only way. but if not, iran and pakistan is if not even more important in terms of constructive engagement. so it's a lot of work on that. but i don't see this as a back -- show stopper at all. because they are all worried, all of them about the afghanistan that returns to kill, and none of them -- none of them wants afghanistan to go back into the hands of the taliban. the pakistan

you know, the late richard holbrooke was so proud of the fact that he'd gotten a transit agreement thatgoes from afghanistan through pakistan to india. well, there should be routes that go from iran to pakistan to india. it's in the everybody's interests. and i would refer people to fred starr at johns hopkins who's written extensively about the silk road, the old silk road. everybody can benefit. turkey can benefit, all of the countries along the silk road. >> i have to say this is one area -- >> where we disagree. >> -- the task force is not unanimous. [laughter] i have great respect for barbara and the work she's done here. i think this would be absolutely the wrong time to send that signal. iran is doing everything it can now to try to find ways around the increasingly effective sanctions that are starting to bite. this is where, as i said in my opening remarks, there's a tension between the need to engage with iran, find areas of cooperation like afghanistan and still keep up a very strong front. i think if we were to send a signal now that we want to encourage pipelines to iran, i